Associations to the word «Galatea»

Wiktionary

GALATEA, noun. (textiles) A strong cotton fabric with diagonal twill weave.
GALATEA, proper noun. (Greek mythology) Galatea; a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus.
GALATEA, proper noun. (Greek mythology) Galatea; a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea.
GALATEA, proper noun. (Greek mythology) Galatea; name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion.
GALATEA, proper noun. (astronomy) A moon of Neptune.
GALATEA, proper noun. (astronomy) Short for 74 Galatea, a main belt asteroid.

Dictionary definition

GALATEA, noun. (Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.

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